“Celebrations punctuate our year, and our punctuations define us as a people.” –Malcolm Smith The people of ancient Ireland marked their year with eight solar and lunar celebrations. Every six […]
Pockets
“A slim schooner of a woman, driven by strong winds and a broken heart, floundered barefoot across the eastern plains until arriving at the edge of a village.” So begins […]
The Risk List
It starts with their very first breaths. We wrap them in layers of blankets, stuff them into backward-facing car seats, and cushion the bars of their cribs with tie-on bumpers. […]
The Giving Tree
Every time I read Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, I cry. “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.” The story is simple, heartbreaking, potent. On every […]
The Wealth of Children
This spring, we’ve been reading fairy tales—not the Disney versions, but the more brutal, more frightening collections of Andrew Lang and the brothers Grimm. These stories are far more violent […]
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